AACTA Awards
The AACTA Awards, or the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, are given out yearly by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Producers, directors, performers, writers, and cinematographers are all recognised for their work in the film and television business, both locally and worldwide. The Australian film and television industry’s most prestigious awards presentation. They are often regarded as Australia’s answer to the Academy Awards in the United States and the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom.
The Australian Film Institute Awards, or AFI Awards, were established in 1958 and featured 30 nominees in six categories. In 1986, they expanded to include both television and movies. In 2011, the AACTA Awards were established. In addition, every January in Los Angeles, the AACTA International Awards, which began on January 27, 2012, are awarded.
History
The Australian Cinema Institute Awards (more generally known as the AFI Awards) were awarded yearly by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) to “recognise and acknowledge outstanding accomplishment in the Australian film and television industry.” They were founded in 1958 “to ameliorate the poor status of Australian film,” and they were a component of the Melbourne International Film Festival until 1972. The inaugural AFI Awards presentation had seven categories: Documentary, Educational, Advertising, Experimental Film, Public Relations, and Teaching, as well as an Open category for films that didn’t fit into the other categories.
Between 1958 and 1980, films were awarded a gold, silver, or bronze medal and a Grand Prix award in exceptional cases, which was the most incredible honour a film could get. In addition, technical achievements were recognised with a gold or silver medallion, while films that did not get a prize were awarded a certificate of honourable mention. Due to the limited number of feature films made in Australia at the time of the awards’ debut in 1968, documentary and instructional films were the only films submitted for consideration. The first feature film to get an AFI award was Jack and Jill: A Postscript in 1969. With a potential silver prize in the “Open” category, it is deemed a winner in the current awards’ Best Film category. Do you know? Before 1970, awards were given in celebration of the film and its production rather than the accomplishments of individual filmmakers.
Statuette
Between 1979 and 2010, the statuette was made of “four clear acrylic rectangular prisms on a silver metal base, green felt on the bottom”; a plaque attached to the base bears the “AFI” insignia, with the potential words “Australian Film Institute” beneath it. A description of the potential award category, the recipient of the award, and the film title cascade beneath each other. The statuette has a height of 295mm, a width of 70mm, and a depth of 70mm. The Australian Film Institute set out to design a new gold cast statuette when it established the Australian Academy of Cinema. The inaugural AACTA Awards statuette had to “represent the grandeur and tradition of the Awards but which was above all authentically Australian” while embracing the Southern Cross constellation and the human spirit and will be handed out starting in 2012.
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AACTA Awards are also called?
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